Westminster Politics 2024-2029

It was a diversion, I doubt he ever intended to go ahead with it, just something to steal the headlines whilst they deepened trade links with a genocidal apartheid state.
Shows how shit a politician he is. People care a lot more about the smoking ban than Arabs being slaughtered.
 

No rise in private school closures in England since Labour’s VAT proposal, data shows​

Since 1987, when data started to be collected, 2,583 schools have opened and 2,674 have shut. In the decade from 2013 to 2023, 847 schools closed – an average of nearly 85 a year.

The 2024 data, which goes up to 6 October, shows that 46 schools have closed, slightly below the average trend, with 77 opening.
https://www.theguardian.com/educati...osures-england-since-labour-vat-proposal-data